Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and by Woody Guthrie

While we're on the subject of hard work, I just
to say that I was a man to work.

I was born and I worked my way up by hard
work. I ain't never got yet but I got there by
work.

Work of the hardest kind. I been and I been out
and I've busted, disgusted and couldn't be trusted.

I worked my way up and I my way down. I've
drunk and I've been sober. I've had hard times
and I got hijacked and been for cash and robbed
on credit.

Worked my way jail and outta jail and I woke up
a lotta and I didn't even know where I was at.

But the hardest work I ever done is I was trying
to get myself a worried woman to my worried
mind.

Now I'm gonna you just about how much hard
work I had to do to get this here woman I'm a-tellin'
you about.

I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolks and her
relatives and I done the with 86 people that was
her friends and her neighbors.

Kissed 73 babies and put dry on 34 of 'em, as well
as others, and the When thing several times, as well
as a lot of other things about like this.

I held 125 head of wild horses, put saddles and
on more that, harnessed some of the craziest,
wildest in the whole country. I rode 14 loco
broncos to a dead and let 42 hound dogs lick
me all over.

7 times I was bit by hungry dogs and I was
all to pieces by water moccasins and on
2 separate bottoms.

I chopped and I 314 arm loads of stoved
wood; 100 buckets of coal, and I a gallon of
kerosene 18 miles and lost a good pair of in a
mud hole.

And I and I weeded 48 rows of short cotton,
13 of bad corn and cut the sticker weeds out of
11 yards, all on account a 'cause I wanted to
show her that I was a man and I to work

I cleaned out 9 barnloads, and 31 automobiles,
all and models, pulled 3 cars out of mud
and 4 out of snowdrifts.

I dug 5 cisterns of water for of her friends and
and run all kinds of errands.

I played the fiddle for 9 church and I joined
11 separate denominations. I up and joined
up for 7 of the best trade unions I find and paid
my dues about 6 ahead of time, waded 40
of swamps, 60 big rivers, walked across 2
mountain and crossed 3 deserts.

I got the and I got the sun stroke and I got the
and I got the flu and I got moonstruck and
skeeter bit, the ivy and the 7 year itch and the
staggers.

I was given up for lost and about 2 dozen times.
by lightning, struck by Congress, struck
by friends and kinfolks, as well as by 3 on
the highways and a lotta times in
henhouses.

I been hit and run down and run and
walked on and knocked around and I'm
here now trying to study up what else I
can do to that woman that I still ain't afraid
of work.